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拍品专文
Galería Freites will include this work in their forthcoming Baltasar Lobo catalogue raisonné under the archive number 5508.
Lobo was born in 1910 in the small village of Cerecinos de Campos in Spain. In 1939, he fled the country in the wake of the Civil War, and moved to Paris. There, he met and developed friendships with Pablo Picasso, Jacques Lipchitz, and Henri Laurens. Lobo and Laurens became particularly close friends, as the older artist invited Lobo to work in his studio, also providing him with his own work space. Working alongside Laurens, Lobo continued to explore his fascination with the female form, a theme which would enthrall him for the rest of his career.
Lobo left Laurens’ studio in the mid-fifties, later transitioning to a style inspired by the work of Jean Arp and Constantin Brancusi. The present work is a unique stone sculpture from 1955 carved in homage to Laurens. Interestingly, the sculpture combines the two styles which Lobo explored in his oeuvre: the rounded head form is suggestive of Arp, while the lower left portion of the form evokes a geometric angularity reminiscent of Laurens. This subject was later cast in bronze in an edition of 6 plus 4 artist’s proofs.
Lobo was born in 1910 in the small village of Cerecinos de Campos in Spain. In 1939, he fled the country in the wake of the Civil War, and moved to Paris. There, he met and developed friendships with Pablo Picasso, Jacques Lipchitz, and Henri Laurens. Lobo and Laurens became particularly close friends, as the older artist invited Lobo to work in his studio, also providing him with his own work space. Working alongside Laurens, Lobo continued to explore his fascination with the female form, a theme which would enthrall him for the rest of his career.
Lobo left Laurens’ studio in the mid-fifties, later transitioning to a style inspired by the work of Jean Arp and Constantin Brancusi. The present work is a unique stone sculpture from 1955 carved in homage to Laurens. Interestingly, the sculpture combines the two styles which Lobo explored in his oeuvre: the rounded head form is suggestive of Arp, while the lower left portion of the form evokes a geometric angularity reminiscent of Laurens. This subject was later cast in bronze in an edition of 6 plus 4 artist’s proofs.